Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001981/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Elena Kountoura (The Left)
With road transport continuing to be the most common form of transport in the EU, road safety is a major social issue. In 2023, 20 400 people died in traffic accidents in the EU[1]. Deaths fell by just 1% in 2023, compared with the 6.1% needed annually across the EU in order to meet the European strategy’s target of zero deaths by 2050 (‘vision zero’), and the target of the EU road safety policy framework 2021-2030 to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 50% by the end of the decade.
The European Parliament had called on the Commission to consider establishing a European road transport agency, along the lines of the agencies for rail, sea and air transport[2]. The creation of an agency will help to improve road safety by coordinating Member States’ efforts to achieve safe, sustainable and smart transport, through ensuring the implementation of the existing European body of regulation, better data collection, information, harmonisation and exchange of good practice. In September 2022, the European coordinator for road safety announced the start of work by the Commission on the establishment of the agency.
In view of this:
Does the Commission plan to immediately move forward with the creation of a European road transport agency, with the aim of managing road safety and coordination in order to reach vision zero by 2050?
Submitted: 8.10.2024
- [1] Many of them pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. See https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/2023-figures-show-stalling-progress-reducing-road-fatalities-too-many-countries-2024-03-08_en
- [2] See paragraph 57 of the European Parliament resolution of 6 October 2021 on the EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030 – Recommendations on next steps towards ‘Vision Zero’. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0407_EN.html